Satellite Operator Eutelsat Boosts Business Broadband Speeds to 30Mbps

Satellite operator Eutelsat, which supplies a number of broadband ISPs in the UK (Europasat, Freedomsat, Avonline etc.), has announced a new range of business products that will boost download speeds up to 30Mbps and offer data allowances of up to 500GB.

At present most of Eutelsat’s business focused satellite broadband (“tooway“) services are supplied via their KA-SAT spacecraft and offer download speeds of up to 22Mbps, with usage allowances tending to top out at just 200GB (GigaBytes) per month. You can expect to pay more than £200 +vat per month for that (a few ISPs charge nearly £400), which is before we get into the hefty hardware and setup costs (these can in some areas be neutralised via Government subsidy schemes).

However the operator has today launched a new range of tooway business products to their ISP customers, which boost download speeds up to 30Mps (uploads of 6Mbps) and offer increased data allowances up to 500GB per month.

The New tooway™ Business Range:
· tooway™ Business 25 offering a 25GB monthly data allowance.

· tooway™ Business 40 offering a 40GB monthly data allowance.

· tooway™ Business 100 and 200 and 500 offering 100GB, 200GB and 500GB monthly data allowances respectively.

· tooway™ Telemetry Lite or tooway™ Telemetry Premium with a 0.5GB and 2GB monthly allowance respectively – designed for businesses that need machine to machine or simple data communications with a 2Mbps up-and-down-link.

Customers can also benefit from an array of options like static IP addresses, Business Hour Protection (gives business customers preferential access to the satellite network during core operating hours of 7am to 7pm) and “guaranteed bandwidth speeds” from 128Kbps and up to 1Mbps (only on Satellite would that seem like an improvement).

Olivier Anstett, Eutelsat Broadband General Manager, said:

“With our improved range of tooway™ Business solutions we are providing organisations with a range of market-leading broadband satellite services to support their commercial needs. If businesses feel that lack of access to high-speed broadband services is holding back their business or that they need an alternative or additional provider, then tooway™ Business is the place to start your search.”

Further details can be found on this page (www.tooway.co.uk/business) and we note that most of the UK based Eutelsat ISPs have yet to update their packages, although we did spot the odd one with a 30Mbps package and 500GB allowance for businesses (here). However in order to get that top package you’ll need to pay £840 per month! At that rate some may be tempted to build their own network instead.